Boas and Hunt (1897): A Prototype Digital EditionMain MenuThe Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians by Franz BoasAn Annotated Digital Edition (in Prototype) With Notes By George HuntAnnotations to the Digital EditionTimelinesMaps
12022-02-16T16:10:22+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eMajor Museum Collections in 1897 Volume18Timelinetimeline2022-02-24T18:42:22+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-17T02:20:44+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eFirst documented encounter between Europeans and Kwakwaka'wakw2Eventplain2022-02-17T02:20:59+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1792Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9e
12022-02-17T02:22:15+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eFort Vancouver built1Eventplain2022-02-17T02:22:15+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1825Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9e
12022-02-17T02:21:38+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eNewettee opened as a fur-trading rendezvous in the maritime fur trade1Eventplain2022-02-17T02:21:38+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1800Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9e
12022-02-17T02:23:03+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eUnited States Exploring Expedition2Eventplain2022-02-17T02:24:59+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/major-museum-collections-in-1897-volume18381842Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9e
12022-02-17T03:45:15+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eHunt produces his first known written materials that appear in Boas 18972Eventplain2022-02-17T03:57:14+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/eighteen-ninety-seven-volume04-01-1893Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9e
12022-02-17T15:39:50+00:00Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9eFort Victoria built1Eventplain2022-02-17T15:39:50+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1843Bill Kennedy15318238463d5962ca788c0c4e0c237d293d0f9e
12022-02-22T18:29:42+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Vancouver Island chartered as a British colony3Eventplain2022-02-22T18:42:42+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1849Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T18:30:47+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5First colonial governor arrives in Victoria (Blanshard)2Eventplain2022-02-22T18:38:27+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1849Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T18:47:25+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Indian Act of Canada passed1Eventplain2022-02-22T18:47:25+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1850Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T18:48:30+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Setting off a military campaign to enforce colonial policing powers1Eventplain2022-02-22T18:48:30+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1850Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T19:34:14+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Crown Colony of Vancouver Island established2Eventplain2022-02-22T19:39:48+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1859Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T19:40:20+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Catholic Oblate missionaries in Fort Rupert1Eventplain2022-02-22T19:40:20+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1863Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T19:43:37+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia merged1Eventplain2022-02-22T19:43:37+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1866Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T19:44:10+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Kwaguł village at Fort Rupert burned by Navy1Eventplain2022-02-22T19:44:10+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1866Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T19:49:06+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Dominion of Canada formed1Eventplain2022-02-22T19:49:06+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1867Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T19:51:02+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5British Columbia joins Dominion of Canada1Eventplain2022-02-22T19:51:02+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1871Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:31:05+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5First government census of the Kwakwaka'wakw (by George Blenkinsop)2Eventplain2022-02-22T20:32:20+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1879Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:03:04+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5CMS missionary Rev. Alfred Hall arrives in Fort Rupert1Eventplain2022-02-22T20:03:04+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1878Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:33:59+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Canadian Department of Indian Affairs established1Eventplain2022-02-22T20:33:59+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1880Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:38:47+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Kwah-kewlth District Agency created in Fort Rupert1Eventplain2022-02-22T20:38:47+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1881Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:47:20+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Revised Indian Act bans the potlatch in Canada2Eventplain2022-02-22T20:49:24+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history01-01-1884Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:48:53+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5The Victoria Times newspaper established1Eventplain2022-02-22T20:48:53+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history01-01-1884Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-22T20:58:22+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Kwah-kewlth District Agency headquarters relocates to Alert Bay1Eventplain2022-02-22T20:58:22+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history07-18-1889Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T15:45:43+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Indian Act revised again to strengthen wording of potlatch ban1Eventplain2022-02-23T15:45:43+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1895Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T16:15:25+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5J. A. Jacobsen collections [EMB]1Eventplain2022-02-23T16:15:25+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/major-museum-collections-in-1897-volume1881Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T17:26:01+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt buys posts of Plate 22 in September1Eventplain2022-02-23T17:26:01+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/eighteen-ninety-seven-volume1894Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T17:43:59+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5SOSSKI Published by the US National Museum [late in 1897]1Eventplain2022-02-23T17:43:59+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/eighteen-ninety-seven-volume1897Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T17:46:12+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas sends two batches of galleys for the book to Hunt1Eventplain2022-02-23T17:46:12+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/eighteen-ninety-seven-volume01-01-1897Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T18:36:42+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas sends 1897 volume to aid with Hunt's defense1Eventplain2022-02-23T18:36:42+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/eighteen-ninety-seven-volume02-01-1900Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T18:55:20+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt writes to Boas suggesting revisions to the 1897 book1Eventplain2022-02-23T18:55:20+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/eighteen-ninety-seven-volume08-15-1922Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T19:38:11+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt runs store seasonally at Xwamdasbe'2Eventplain2022-02-23T19:41:24+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities1881Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T19:47:58+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt collecting for Chicago fair1Eventplain2022-02-23T19:47:58+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities10-31-1892Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-23T19:50:00+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt spends 7 months in Chicago with Kwakwaka'wakw troupe1Eventplain2022-02-23T19:50:00+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities04-01-1893Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T16:34:36+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt arrested for participation in potlatch/Hamat'sa1Eventplain2022-02-24T16:34:36+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities02-01-1900Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T16:35:01+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas sends 1897 volume to aid with defense1Eventplain2022-02-24T16:35:01+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities02-01-1900Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T16:49:51+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt visits Boas in NYC1Eventplain2022-02-24T16:49:51+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities03-01-1903Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T17:09:20+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt works with E.S. Curtis1Eventplain2022-02-24T17:09:20+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities1911Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T17:28:02+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Hunt arrives Victoria 29 or 30 Aug (GH-FB 7 Aug 1927)1Eventplain2022-02-24T17:28:02+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/hunt-activities08-29-1927Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T17:34:52+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Cranmer potlatch and subsequent arrests/confiscations1Eventplain2022-02-24T17:34:52+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1921Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T17:36:34+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Potlatch prohibition quietly dropped from Indian Act1Eventplain2022-02-24T17:36:34+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/national--colonial-history1951Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:03:03+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas receives PhD, Univ. of Keil1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:03:03+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities1881Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:06:26+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to Baffin Island1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:06:26+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities1883Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:08:30+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas visits New York City for the first time1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:08:30+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities01-01-1884Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:16:59+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas' first field trip to the NWC (self-financed)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:16:59+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities09-18-1886Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:18:50+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas emigrates to US, settles in NYC, gets married1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:18:50+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities1887Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:23:27+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (financed by BAAS)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:23:27+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities05-31-1888Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:28:03+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas appointed as "Docent in Anthropology" at Clark University2Eventplain2022-02-24T19:28:45+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities07-18-1889Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:30:06+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (financed by BAAS)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:30:06+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities05-01-1890Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:32:25+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (financed by BAAS)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:32:25+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities07-18-1889Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:34:31+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (financed by BAAS)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:34:31+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities07-05-1891Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:39:29+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (financed by BAAS, AMNH, USNM)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:39:29+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities09-10-1894Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:40:00+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5DATES: attends Winter Ceremonial in Fort Rupert1Eventsplain2022-02-24T19:40:00+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities09-10-1894Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T19:57:28+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (JNPE)1Eventplain2022-02-24T19:57:28+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities06-03-1897Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T20:00:33+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas appointed professor of Anthropology at Columbia University2Eventplain2022-02-24T20:01:41+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities1899Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T20:02:36+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC (JNPE)1Eventplain2022-02-24T20:02:36+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities06-21-1900Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T20:05:23+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas resigns from AMNH1Eventplain2022-02-24T20:05:23+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities03-19-1905Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5
12022-02-24T20:18:35+00:00Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5Boas field trip to NWC1Eventplain2022-02-24T20:18:35+00:00/boas-and-hunt-1897/boas-activities10-21-1930Hector3b5757a20099931883b0fea82e6f794fab4479b5